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Robotics is the branch of technology that deals with the design, construction, operation, and application of automated machines known as robots. It also involves the computers systems for their control, sensory feedback, and information processing.
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Modem says it has been installed,
shows in device manager, but indicates no driver installed.
In Control Panel under Phones and Modems it shows...but says not functional.
Did updates, even installed a USB RS232 and set it for com 4, still, that item shows ok in
device manager, but will not install a functional modem.
Tried two different usb modems US Robotics
Tried another USR v92 serial model.
Any ideas out there?
shows in device manager, but indicates no driver installed.
In Control Panel under Phones and Modems it shows...but says not functional.
Did updates, even installed a USB RS232 and set it for com 4, still, that item shows ok in
device manager, but will not install a functional modem.
Tried two different usb modems US Robotics
Tried another USR v92 serial model.
Any ideas out there?
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This is so cool! I've already gone through some of the sections in Apple's Swift Playgrounds app and loved it, but this new support for programming robotic toys looks even more amazing and fun. Great way to get kids learning programming at an early age. (Ok, who am I kidding... I want this for myself!)
Any of you check out the Swift Playgrounds app or have any of these robots? Are you teaching your kids to program?
Any of you check out the Swift Playgrounds app or have any of these robots? Are you teaching your kids to program?
RoboCop is here! Ok, so maybe it's mostly a customer service kiosk with a face, but still... RoboCop!
https://www.cnet.com/news/dubai-deploys-first-robotic-police-officer/
https://www.cnet.com/news/dubai-deploys-first-robotic-police-officer/
Has anyone checked out Judah vs. the Machines? As a 30 Rock fan, I enjoyed watching him go head-to-head against some pretty incredible and interesting AI systems.
https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/22/judah-vs-the-machines/
https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/22/judah-vs-the-machines/
I have used Python, Natural Language Processing and web scraping technology to do some deep mining of Google's vast warehouses of articles on the web.
Is what I described considered artificial intelligence?
Or, in order to satisfy the requirement of AI must that model also automatically adjust it's algorithms based on the results of the searches? In my case, the adjustments were manual.
Curious.
Thanks.
Is what I described considered artificial intelligence?
Or, in order to satisfy the requirement of AI must that model also automatically adjust it's algorithms based on the results of the searches? In my case, the adjustments were manual.
Curious.
Thanks.
The role of marketing has made dramatic shifts over the last decade. With the prevalence of AI and more sophisticated business intelligence, the role of Chief Marketing Technologist has emerged to manage it all. Here's why the position matters, and how their expertise impacts the world of tech:
http://blog.experts-exchange.com/martech/chief-marketing-technologist-what-this-role-means-for-tech/
http://blog.experts-exchange.com/martech/chief-marketing-technologist-what-this-role-means-for-tech/
Some interesting pros and cons to giving space exploring robots a personality.
https://www.usatoday.com/videos/tech/2017/05/09/why-do-we-treat-our-spacecraft-like-they're-humans/101465948/
https://www.usatoday.com/videos/tech/2017/05/09/why-do-we-treat-our-spacecraft-like-they're-humans/101465948/
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Interesting video!
I think that giving a human personality to a mission makes the public more interested on the mission, more likely to follow the mission and keep themselves up to date on the mission status. Unfortunately, this also shows how our society works and their lack of interest on reading a news article about it. Anyway, I don't think it is a bad thing because thanks to this new approach the public is aware of what scientists are doing.
I think that giving a human personality to a mission makes the public more interested on the mission, more likely to follow the mission and keep themselves up to date on the mission status. Unfortunately, this also shows how our society works and their lack of interest on reading a news article about it. Anyway, I don't think it is a bad thing because thanks to this new approach the public is aware of what scientists are doing.
Ever had a chance to play around with a neural network? The TensorFlow team from Google put together a demo site that lets you mess around and get a feel for them without having to code anything. I like that your able to see what "feature" each group of neurons is learning and then composing together in order to achieve the output.
Thought for the day: if you have an autonomous car and get pulled over for speeding, who pays the ticket? You or the car manufacturer?
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@brian - That's an interesting question, I would assume that the cars actively can process a speed limit sign and then that data gets relayed back to Google after x number of verifications and the database gets changed permanently.
There are some other interesting problems to, come to think of it- for example, I wonder how the car would react to something like a construction worker either waving you on to move forward or holding up his hand to stop you.
For a lot of things, there's going to need to be manual interaction- and I think the variable of liability will be in who the car's black box says was in control at the time.
There are some other interesting problems to, come to think of it- for example, I wonder how the car would react to something like a construction worker either waving you on to move forward or holding up his hand to stop you.
For a lot of things, there's going to need to be manual interaction- and I think the variable of liability will be in who the car's black box says was in control at the time.
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@Brian
Maybe car companies will work with the state to help pay for electronic signs that interact with their cars. The German automakers did this for the autobahn, making it a super safe place to drive. I was astonished when my rental car automatically pulled the speed limit from the passing signs, and put it on my HUD.
Maybe car companies will work with the state to help pay for electronic signs that interact with their cars. The German automakers did this for the autobahn, making it a super safe place to drive. I was astonished when my rental car automatically pulled the speed limit from the passing signs, and put it on my HUD.
We've got AI winning at poker, driving cars, and detecting cancer. And now, there's even one that just wrote all of David Hasslehoff's lines in a short sci-fi film about AI writing movies... Haven't had a chance to watch it yet, but posting here for later viewing.
https://arstechnica.com/the-multiverse/2017/04/an-ai-wrote-all-of-david-hasselhoffs-lines-in-this-demented-short-film/
https://arstechnica.com/the-multiverse/2017/04/an-ai-wrote-all-of-david-hasselhoffs-lines-in-this-demented-short-film/
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Ok... had a chance to watch this last night. Was pretty darn weird... Had a bit of a "student film" vibe to it, but it was pretty entertaining to see the performances of the AI written dialog. I really would like to read through the script on its own, as the actors did a great job of selling the lines and I wonder if it would seem more like gibberish without the acting...
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In this poll of 158,000 people on how they felt about self-driving cars, ~30% said they’d "be very or extremely concerned about riding in a self-driving car" - unsure if the risks outweigh the benefits and cost.
Curious: does our community share that reservation?
Curious: does our community share that reservation?
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What gets really interesting about all this is when you start to consider the classic philosophical / ethical issue of "the trolley problem". Are you ok with your robot car making a decision that puts you in danger in order to save more lives (like if you're on a collision course with a bunch of kids crossing the road and the car swerves to take you off the road...)
We don't have much about machine learning or a.i. on the site, but I saw this blog post I found interesting.
https://nat.org/aigrant-get-5-000-for-your-open-source-ai-project-1118dd7db083
https://nat.org/aigrant-get-5-000-for-your-open-source-ai-project-1118dd7db083
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Also, if you want to see Machine Learning as an official topic on EE, go vote for it!
Hi,
I want to find out if there is a BluePrism work flows or process repository available for Import.
For example General Excel opening and delimiting with standard options, is there a repository available for similar hundreds of small steps.
Thanks.
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I want to find out if there is a BluePrism work flows or process repository available for Import.
For example General Excel opening and delimiting with standard options, is there a repository available for similar hundreds of small steps.
Thanks.
- MK
What do you think about augmenting the brain with tech?
This development represents an important step forward in AI research, away from mastering tasks like voice,image recognition, and translation, and towards a more nuanced and collaborative AI that adopts a human-like method for decision-making.
Cool competition. However, if I was capable at creating such AI, I wouldn't do it for $20,000. I'd sell this AI to the highest bidder!
http://www.techrepublic.com/article/microsoft-competition-asks-phd-students-to-create-advanced-ai-to-play-minecraft/?ftag=TRE684d531&bhid=27457961240876229835964102892079
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for the original? I find that almost hard to believe now.. I used to have a crap load of the maps. I wonder if I saved them along with the game CD. I should rip the CD on for a virtual drive so I can play without it and try to boot an old PC for the game maps..
never did play SC2 :/ it was laggy on my laptop of the time, though my current one should be fine, I wonder what I'd have to pay for a copy now a days
never did play SC2 :/ it was laggy on my laptop of the time, though my current one should be fine, I wonder what I'd have to pay for a copy now a days
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Nice. Yeah, BN is still very much alive. http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/
I played the full campaigns of SC2. It was satisfying to finally get the ending of the story. I thought it was worth it.
You should still have the maps if you haven't wiped your OS or saved the map files on a USB thumb drive haha
I played the full campaigns of SC2. It was satisfying to finally get the ending of the story. I thought it was worth it.
You should still have the maps if you haven't wiped your OS or saved the map files on a USB thumb drive haha
CD on for a virtual driveThis. SO MUCH.
Throwback Thursday!
I've been fascinated by developments in machine learning and AI, so I decided to run some searches here on EE to see what sort of questions people had been asking in these areas. I stumbled across this old question from April 2000, regarding developing the AI portion of a card game. Couldn't help but be reminded of how just recently a machine learning system was able to figure out poker and emerge victorious.
We've come a long way!
https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/10329216/AI-for-card-games.html
I've been fascinated by developments in machine learning and AI, so I decided to run some searches here on EE to see what sort of questions people had been asking in these areas. I stumbled across this old question from April 2000, regarding developing the AI portion of a card game. Couldn't help but be reminded of how just recently a machine learning system was able to figure out poker and emerge victorious.
We've come a long way!
https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/10329216/AI-for-card-games.html
Hi All, I am creating a simple module using API.AI where API will ask set of 10 questions and retrieve answers.I In between of these question set i.e. after question 3, i want to handle in between user queries using other intent also but after handling those queries, I want to return back to the original question set i.e. question 4. Can we do this ? if not what is the suitable way of handling such scenario?
Hi All, I am creating a simple module using API.AI where user will ask set of questions and retrieve answers. I am using my own web service using webhook and fullfillment from my intent. Now can I use predefined domain like smallTalk,wisdom also simultaneously?
In API.AI, @system.given-name can recognize English names. I want to create a module for india. Do we have any method by which we can use such kind of concept for indian names?
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I believe that its a dangerous mindset to think that we can engineer our way out of the trouble we get into ecologically
Solid point. There can certainly be lot of hubris in engineering, and the "robot bee" approach sure sounds like a major violation of finding the simplest solution... (But then again, who knows? Maybe we're at the point where making a robot bee is easier than going up against Monsanto?)
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Bees were listed on the endangered species list in January. That is scary.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/u-s-lists-a-bumble-bee-species-as-endangered-for-first-time/
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/u-s-lists-a-bumble-bee-species-as-endangered-for-first-time/
Here's a pretty fantastic use of machine learning: cancer detection.
"New findings show that this approach — enlisting machine learning, predictive analytics and pattern recognition — has achieved 89 percent accuracy, beyond the 73 percent score of a human pathologist."
"New findings show that this approach — enlisting machine learning, predictive analytics and pattern recognition — has achieved 89 percent accuracy, beyond the 73 percent score of a human pathologist."
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@Michael: Mostly because it's the closest topic I could find and "AI" is currently one of the synonyms for "Robotics". I tend to think similar to you, and would mainly expect Robotics to involve a physical machine; but then again, there are "chatbots", right? Or perhaps "bot" can be the term for a non-physical version of a robot?
We currently have an application called "Support" for mobile devices (runs on iOS/Android). The end user types their issue into the a form and it goes off to the helpdesk, who log a ticket.
To me, this seems somewhat pre-historic.
I was thinking of utilising bots, so that the user could interface with some level of AI which would then at least be able to present solutions
Is this possible? Are chatbots available to understand that the user has written and then point them to a Knowledge Base?
Any way to make this even better?
To me, this seems somewhat pre-historic.
I was thinking of utilising bots, so that the user could interface with some level of AI which would then at least be able to present solutions
Is this possible? Are chatbots available to understand that the user has written and then point them to a Knowledge Base?
Any way to make this even better?
Anyone looking for a fun do-it-yourself project? This college student converted his Honda Civic into a self-driving car using a smartphone, freely available software, a 3D printed case, and circuit board he soldered himself. Fascinating stuff, but I'll be honest, it seems a bit dangerous and I wonder what sort of laws will be cropping up soon as a result of projects like this...
Then again, it's not like human drivers are particularly safe and perhaps even a hobbyist level self-driving modification would still be safer than your average person...
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603637/how-a-college-kid-made-his-honda-civic-self-driving-for-700/
Then again, it's not like human drivers are particularly safe and perhaps even a hobbyist level self-driving modification would still be safer than your average person...
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603637/how-a-college-kid-made-his-honda-civic-self-driving-for-700/
Google has just made available their troll-fighting AI - a system that can determine the "toxicity" rating of online comments in order to help stop abusive behavior. Fascinating use of machine learning... Can it help bring more civility to internet comments sections or will it be a new form of censorship?
https://www.wired.com/2017/02/googles-troll-fighting-ai-now-belongs-world/
https://www.wired.com/2017/02/googles-troll-fighting-ai-now-belongs-world/
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Perhaps that'd be the next phase of the project -- to start being able to recognize sarcasm or being more context sensitive? Also, I've seen a lot of use of a "/s" at the end of a statement to denote that it was sarcasm (since sarcasm is so difficult to detect in written text, even for humans) so I could envision a machine learning system being able to recognize that.
What's on my mind, this box on EE asks me... What's on my mind? I'll tell you: Artificial Intelligence is on my mind. A lot. While I am utterly fascinated by AI research and development, I am also deeply troubled by it. And no, I don't mean troubled by some sort of dystopian future à la "The Matrix" or "The Terminator", but by the potential for massive job displacement and extreme economic impacts as a result.
While I'm extremely optimistic that in the long run, turning over a lot more work to AI systems will be of major benefit to humanity, I am exceptionally concerned about a very painful period of adjustment. We seem to be at the precipice of a paradigm shift at least on par with (or even greater than) the Industrial Revolution, and I wonder: how can we learn from that transition and foster a smoother one this time around? Is it even possible? Am I being alarmist? And what responsibility do we, as technology professionals, have as we steer these new advancements?
While I'm extremely optimistic that in the long run, turning over a lot more work to AI systems will be of major benefit to humanity, I am exceptionally concerned about a very painful period of adjustment. We seem to be at the precipice of a paradigm shift at least on par with (or even greater than) the Industrial Revolution, and I wonder: how can we learn from that transition and foster a smoother one this time around? Is it even possible? Am I being alarmist? And what responsibility do we, as technology professionals, have as we steer these new advancements?
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Robotics is the branch of technology that deals with the design, construction, operation, and application of automated machines known as robots. It also involves the computers systems for their control, sensory feedback, and information processing.
